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The American Public Health Association (APHA) has selected Xihong Lin to receive the Lowell Reed Lecture Award from the APHA Health Statistics Section. The award is presented annually to a statistician who has made significant contributions to public health through research, teaching, and/or service. The lecture honors the legacy of…
The Bernoulli Society has announced the recipients of its 2026 New Researchers Award in Probability Theory. The awardees are Morris Ang (UC San Diego), Serte Donderwinkel (University of Groningen), and IMS member Mark Sellke (Harvard University). There were also Honourable Mentions for Ahmed Bou-Rabee (University of Pennsylvania), Sky Cao (MIT),…
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University welcomed Robert Tibshirani, Professor of Statistics and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, as the 2025 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer. Tibshirani presented “Univariate-Guided Sparse Regression” on October 17, 2025.
The recording is now available at: https://youtu.be/tYGWAJLC-eQ…
Aleksandra (Seša) Slavković, Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean for Research in Eberly College of Science, Penn State University, has been selected by the American Statistical Association to present the 2025 ASA Links Lecture, “Praivacy (noun) Pronounced: /‘prā-və-sē/ Balancing Data Confidentiality and Utility,” on January 23, 2026, from noon…
Professor Klaus Krickeberg, who was an IMS Fellow, passed away peacefully on November 27, in Bielefeld, Germany, where he had resided in recent years. He was 96 years old. The funeral service took place on December 8 in Bielefeld. Born in Berlin in 1929, Klaus Krickeberg held professorships in…